Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 60

• Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World And Love, Joy, Sorrow

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• The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law Of Attraction, Secret, Answers

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• Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Civilization, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.443, Harvard University Press

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• Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perfect, Elements, Taught

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's Complete Works”

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• Earth endures; Stars abide.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Earth, Endure

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Form

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Faith, Dollars, Deaf

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• Fear is cruel and mean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Fear, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.129, Harvard University Press

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• Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Debtors, Fiction, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.274, Bantam Classics

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• Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Long, Serious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.273

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• There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Two, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.254, Harvard University Press

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• Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Harm

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• The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Song, Blood, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.92, Harvard University Press

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• Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Vices

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• Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Progress, Identity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2771, Delphi Classics

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• Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wild Beauty, Religion, Fruit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The river knows the way to the sea:
  Without a pilot it runs and falls,
  Blessing all lands with its charity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Fall, Blessing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.93, Delphi Classics

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• Every noble activity makes room for itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Noble, Rooms, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.482, Modern Library

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• Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Taken, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• Who gave thee, O Beauty,
  The keys of this breast,--
  Too credulous lover
  Of blest and unblest?
  Say, when in lapsed ages
  Thee knew I of old?
  Or what was the service
  For which I was sold?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Keys, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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• There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Intuition, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2634, Delphi Classics

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• If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Contentment, Analysis, Asking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.208, Penguin

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• Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Ideals

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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